Adjusting device.



W. DEUTSCH.

ADJUSTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1914.

1,169,]. Patented Jan. 25, 1916.

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Specification of Iietters Patent.

Application filed May 22, 1914. Serial No. 840,228.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVILLIAM DEUTSOH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Adjusting Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to trousers, vests, suspenders, garters, hose supporters and like articles, and its object is to provide a new and improved adjusting device which is very simple in construction and arranged to permit convenient adjustment of the article with a view to shorten or lengthen the same or to adjust a portion thereof between spaced points.

In order to accomplish the desired result use is made of two fixed members in the form of tapes, bands, webbings or the like, one of the members being provided at one end with a clamping terminal and a buckle having a plate provided with a slot and with a struck-up angular tongue extending integrally from one side wallof the said slot, the ends of the said members extending through the said slot and the said clamping terminal clamping the other members against the said tongue.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the ad justing device as applied to trousers; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional plan View of part of the adjusting device on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged face View of the buckle; Fig. A is a perspective view of the flexible member having the clamping terminal; Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of a modified form of the buckle and the member having the clamping terminal; Fig. 6 is a similar view of another modified form of the same; and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the flexible member having a modified form of clamping terminal.

The adjusting device consists essentially of two flexible members A and B and a buckle C, the said flexible members A and B being in the form of tapes, bands, webbings or the like, and, as shown in Fig. 1, the said tapes are secured at their outer ends by stitches D or D or other fastening devices to trousers E at distant points immediately below the waistband. The buckle (J is in the form of a metallic plate having a slot C and a struck-up tongue C extending integrally from one side wall of the slot C, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2. The free ends of the flexible members A and B are passed through the slot G from the front face thereof rearwardly and the end portion A of the member A is doubled up around the tongue C as plainly indicated in Fig. 2. The free end of the other flexible member B is provided with a clamping terminal B adapted to bear against the member A directly opposite the edge of the tongue C so as to clamp the said member A on the tongue The clamping terminal B is preferably formed by doubling up the material of which the member B is made and fastening the doubled-up portions together by stitches B or other fastening means, or the said clamping members may be formed by providing the free end of the flexible member B wlth a metallic binding B as indicated in Fig. 7

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be noticed that the distance between the edge of the tongue C and the opposite side wall of the slot G corresponds approximately to the aggregate thickness of the two members A and B so that the clamping member B cannot pass through the slot C when exerting a strain in opposite directions on the members A and B, but on the contrary the said clamping member B. bears forcibly against that portion of the flexible member A passing around the free edge of the tongue C to securelyclamp the said portion of the member A in position on the tongue. hen it is desired to shorten the device it is only necessary for the user to take hold of the free end A of the flexible member A and to draw the same rearwardly through the slot C until the desired adjustment is had and then bring the end A over the tongue C as shown in Fig. 2.

It is understood that the stronger the pull in opposite directions on the flexible members A and B the harder the clamping member B will bear against the portion of the member A engaging the free edge of the tongue C at the time so that the said portion is firmly clamped in position on the tongue. If desired, the member B may be attached to the plate or buckle C, and for this purpose the plate may be provided with a struck-up tongue C adapted to engage the member as indicated in Fig. 5.

As shown in Fig. 6 the member B may be fastened to the plate of the buckle C by the use of stitches F passing through the member B and through apertures C in the plate of the buckle C.

' The adjusting device shown and described is very simple and durable in construction and can be cheaply manufactured and read- "ily applied to various articles, such as claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. 'An adjusting device, comprising flexilble members, a buckle platehaving a slot and a struck up angularly disposed tongue extending from one side Wall of the slot, the

' said flexible members passing through the said slot and one of the said flexible members having an enlarged clamping terminal of such size that it cannot pass through the slot when the other flexible member is in position therein, but is adapted to clamp the other flexible member against the saidtongue. 7 7 V 2. An adjusting device, comprising flexible members and a buckle formed of a plate having a slot and a struck-up tongue extending rearwardly from one side Wall of the slot at an angle to one face of theplate, both of the said flexible members passing through the said slotffrom the other face of the Copies of this patent may' be obtained for plate and one of the said flexible members being doubled up over the said tongue and the terminal of the other flexible member having a thickened portion forming a clamping member adapted when strain is exerted in opposite directions on the flexible members, to bear against the other flexible member and clamp the latter against the said tongue.

3. An adjusting device, comprising flexible members and a buckle formed of a plate having a slot and a struck-up tongue extending rearwardly from one side wall of the slot at an angle to the rear face of the plate, the space between the edge of the tongue and the opposite side wall of the slot corresponding approximately to the aggregate thickness of the said flexible members, the said flexible members passing through the said slot from the front face of the plate, and one of the said flexible members being doubled up over the said tongue and the terminal of the other flexible member having a thickened portion preventing it from being drawn through the slot when the other flexible member is in position, the said thickness portion forming a clamping member bearing against the other flexible member directly opposite the edge of the tongue and clamping the said flexible member against the said tongue.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WVILLIAM DEUTSCH.

Witnesses THEo. G. HOSTER, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

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